Biography

CHRISTA ELIZABETH CAPUA

lives —Asheville, NC

@christa.e.c

Christa Capua is an Asheville, NC based artist creating densely layered digital collages from her studio in the River Arts District. A graduate of Bennington College (BA), Christa's visual language can best be described as "Southern Futurism," - a style of layered imagery that explores a narrative of place, of gender, and of living between history and technology.

Christa has been in numerous group shows and was recently awarded two solo exhibitions in 2026 with the Lawrence Art Center in Kansas and with the Allenton Gallery c/o The Durham Arts Council in North Carolina. In 2024, she was selected by the Bob Moog Foundation via a grant from the North Carolina Arts Council to design and install an original artwork commemorating the 5-year anniversary of the Bob Moog Foundation.

Artist Statement

As a female artist working in the American South, I’ve always been intrigued by the contradictions that exist here and my relationship to them: the rural and the urban, decay and ‘progress’, technology and history, and of course the shifting tides of what it means to be a woman in America, particularly the complexities of womanhood in a place the American South. I think of my style of work as “Southern Futurism. My work explores these tensions via large-scale digital collage “scrolls.” These long, rectangular pieces evoke the narratives found in Asian storytelling scrolls and the ancient talismanic scrolls found in various faiths, from Buddhism to Christianity. At the same time, the work is deeply influenced by Street Art, and the dense layering that occurs when an urban wall is painted and pasted over repeatedly. The horizontal aspect ratio evokes the sensation of passing a long wall or a moving train that has been marked and layered with imagery over time.

Cirriculum Vitae

1994 BA Bennington College, Bennington, VT Major: Painting & Drawing Minor: Psychology MS cum laude | 2005 | Florida International University Major: Counseling Psychology

Solo Exhibitions

2026 Lawrence Art Center Gallery, “Christa Capua – Southern Futurism” Lawrence, KS

Allenton Gallery, Durham Arts Council, “Christa Capua – The Hours After Helene” Durham, NC

Grant Award

2024 NC Council of the Arts/Bob Moog Foundation, recipient of grant to create an original piece of art for the Bob Moog

May, Foundation’s 5th Anniversary Celebration, Asheville, NC, May

Corporate/Private Art Exhibitions

2026 Asheville Airport, “Place and Time” Group show of eight regional artists

The Radical Hotel, Asheville, NC – Rotating Winter and Spring

2024 Atrium Hospital/CMC Atrium Gallery, NC Artists Group Show, Charlotte, North Carolina

Selected Group Gallery Exhibitions

2025 The Art Gallery at Congdon Yards, “The Soul of Appalachia” High Point, NC

Art Center of Greenwood, Juried Show, Greenwood, SC

2024 ArtFields 2024, Juried Art Fair and Competition, Lake City, SC

Miami International Fine Arts, “Human x Machina: Arts in the Age of Technology” Miami, FL December

2023 Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, “Combined Talents: Southern Futurism” Tallahassee, FL

Viridian Artists Gallery, “32nd International Juried Exhibition” New York, NY

2022 ARTFLuent, Boston, MA Online Group Show – “Unity” (Awarded Best in Show)

2021 Arts in Color Gallery, “C’est la Vision” Washington, DC

2020 Bank of the Arts/Craven Arts Center “2020 Juried Exhibition” New Bern, NC

FALC Gallery, “25th Annual Juried Exhibition” Cary, NC

Zapow Gallery “2nd Annual WNC Artists Showcase” Asheville, NC

Publications

2023 SuboArt Magazine, Issue 14, Featured Artist, November Issue

Women United Art Magazine, Spring Issue – Featured Artist

2022 The Huts Magazine, November Issue – Featured Artist

New Visionary Magazine, October Issue – Featured Artist